Courage to Succeed !

This book its an inspiring book. Its gives you the tools and courage to follow your dreams, to be persistent and consistent. Read IT!

"Its not how many times you fall its how many times you get up that counts !"
From the Book Courage to Succeed

Buckminster Fuller - Humanity's Final Exam

This is the Man that set me on my journey!

Brian Cox: What really goes on at the Large Hadron Collider

Learning @ THE UNIVERSE !

Wisdom from Financial Guru !

Recently a team member of mine dropped this email which I found to be useful in today's time of financial turmoil.

Warren Buffet's advice for 2009

We begin this New Year with dampened enthusiasm and dented optimism. Our happiness is diluted and our peace is threatened by the financial illness that has infected our families, organizations and nations. Everyone is desperate to find a remedy that will cure their financial illness and help them recover their financial health. They expect the financial experts to provide them with remedies, forgetting the fact that it is these experts who created this financial mess.

Every new year, I adopt a couple of old maxims as my beacons to guide my future. This self-prescribed therapy has ensured that with each passing year, I grow wiser and not older. This year, I invite you to tap into the financial wisdom of our elders along with me and become financially wiser.

1. Hard Work: All hard work bring a profit, but mere talk leads only to poverty.

2. Laziness: A sleeping lobster is carried away by the water current.

3. Earnings: Never depend on a single source of income. (At least make your investments get you second earning).

4. Spending: If you buy things you don't need, you will soon sell things you need.

5. Savings: Don't save what is left after spending. Spend what is left after saving. (Our CPF system in Singapore works on this basis, Save first and then spend).

6. Borrowing: The borrower becomes the lender's slave. (Do not borrow)

7. Accounting: It is no use carrying an umbrella, if your shoes are leaking.

8. Auditing: Beware of little expenses. A small leak can sink a large ship.

9. Risk-taking: Never test the depth of the river with both feet. Have an alternate plan ready.

10. Investment: Don't put all your eggs in one basket. (Diversify your investments)

I am certain that those who have already been practicing these principles remain financially healthy. I am equally confident that those who resolve to start practicing these principles will quickly regain their financial health.


World's Richest Man -Warren Buffet (Reference: Forbes.com)

Participation or Failure

My experience with people has been that even before they start on a project or on what they want to do they start with quitting in their mind, sort of a back door. If it does not work I can quit. The back door mentality. I remember when I met my wife (girl friend) in my early 20's we decided to have a relationship and test the waters if it does not work we could call it quits. Wrong start! At that time I had a friend staying with me temporarily from Malaysia working in Singapore, and I sought his counsel as he was a few years older than me. This was his advise, he said that there is'nt Mr or Miss right out there. If you start anything make a decision and work at it, to make it work. Love is a decision and not a infactuation. I did not understand that at that time now after 21 years of marriage, wisdom indicates that we work on our decision on a daily basis. In other words you participate 100% in your decision. The only failure in your decision is not participating 100 percent. Yes we have challenges that we face constantly and things don't work out the way you want it to be. So than why these challenges? Challenges makes us stronger as we figure out how to covercome these challenges. The magic word put on your thinking cap and figure out solutions. Albert Einstein once quoted: " Thinking is hard work thats why very few people engage in it". Even if you do fail in the process temporarily, the journey is more important as you have participated 100 percent and the experience is the amount of mistakes we have accumulated and learnt from it. One process I use is this debrief process which I hope will help you figure out your solutions; take some time to pencil down your thoughts to these questions

Debief Whats The Challenge?

1. What Happened?
2. Why?
3. What did you learn from this challenge?
4. What corrections are you willing to make?

The Key word is "What corrections are you willing to make" thats where true learning takes place.

The Only Failure is your Failure

to Participate 100 Percent

Thoughts for Reflection !

Prejudice is a great time saver - it enables us to form opinions without knowing the facts.
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